"The White Side, The Black Side" è l'album di debutto di Project-TO, collettivo elettronico torinese formato dal noto sperimentatore e studioso del suono Riccardo Mazza, Laura Pol e Carlo Biagini. Un progetto “autoriale" di musica e visual in uscita il prossimo autunno per Machiavelli Records. 

L'album, registrato negli studi di Interactivesound a Torino, è stato realizzato in funzione del live set, vera e propria esperienza audio-visuale dove si alternano i brani del lato white, in stile elettronica/big beat, con le atmosfere più techno ambient/dark delle tracce black.

Sign of the Earth

2 Black Sign of the Earth

I-Hope

1 Black I-Hope

Fifteen years of sound research and unpublished experimental music of Riccardo Mazza which has been revised and remastered, and has been collected as a single work for the first time. 9 thematic Cds

1. Concreto

01 Flight

Fifteen years of sound research and unpublished experimental music of Riccardo Mazza which has been revised and remastered, and has been collected as a single work for the first time. 9 thematic Cds. 
Cover photo by Laura Pol©2016

3. Vocale

03 Inside

02 Cosmometrie

01 Borgo Vecchio

Fifteen years of sound research and unpublished experimental music of Riccardo Mazza which has been revised and remastered, and has been collected as a single work for the first time. 9 thematic Cds. 
Cover photo by Laura Pol©2016


5. Risonanze

01 Santi e Luoghi - II

8. Visioni Immaginarie

01 Lhasa - II

9. Tracce Sonore

01 Donde esta Oesterheld I

IRO in Japanese means "colour" and the tracks making up the album, which are 6 as in every Project-TO release, a sort of symbolic number, introduce the vocal element through the Japanese language. After choosing the black and white of the previous albums, which are only instrumental, it is the voice that represents the chromatic turning point. The tempo is pulsating, always marked by a deep, hammering speaker, while the sounds are more experimental and evolve continuously, synthesising with voices to turn into a pure noise, of which stylistic references can be found in the latest works by Alva Noto, Bjork, Andy Stott and Beytone.
Produced and recorded in Turin at Riccardo Mazza’s new Experimental Studios, one of the most technologically advanced studios in Europe for experimental and electronic music, IRO is inspired by haiku, a poetic composition that started in Japan in the seventeenth century. 
Among the reflections that Roland Barthes wrote in his book "The Empire of Signs", haiku is not a rich thought reduced to a short form, but a short event that suddenly finds its exact form; it has the purity, sphericity and emptiness of a musical note itself. 
Each track in the album is dedicated to a different haiku, where the theme of the seasons is characterised by at least one word representing them, from which research on the musicality of the verse starts. The pure essentiality of these poems, which express concepts and images referring to nature and semantic reversals giving rise to a leap in the imagination between apparently distant ideas and images, is also the inspiration behind the work of Laura Pol who, mixing photography and video, has created a language that is an integral part of the project for the new Live Audio-Visual Project-TO, just as in the two previous albums.

03 SAKURA CHIRU

02 HARU NO UMI

01 SUMIRE ODO

Età Del Fuoco

ÉTUDES DE SYNTHÈSE AGRÉGATIVE POUR QUATRE POÈMES 
Four studies where complex timbres are constructed using banks of simpler elements. These works stem from original verses of italo-french poet Jean-Claude Oberto, where four poems has been chosen and recorded by the composer using the poet’s own voice. Such recordings has been then analyzed using various analysis techniques like spectral, impulse and other fragment synthesis methods such as grain clouds and filterbank with the goal to achieve a parametrized set of elements that could be performed live in real time. 
The study consist in performing such parameters on a musical stream composition until the phrase is in some way reconstructed or at least recognizable.

étude N.3

étude N.3 de synthèse aggrégative

étude N.4

étude N.4 de synthèse aggrégative

ÉTUDES DE SYNTHÈSE AGGRÉGATIVE POUR QUATRE POÈMES 
Four studies where complex timbres are constructed using banks of simpler elements. These works stem from original verses of italo-french poet Jean-Claude Oberto, where four poems has been chosen and recorded by the composer using the poet’s own voice. Such recordings has been then analyzed using various analysis techniques like spectral, impulse and other fragment synthesis methods such as grain clouds and filterbank with the goal to achieve a parametrized set of elements that could be performed live in real time. 
The study consist in performing such parameters on a musical stream composition until the phrase is in some way reconstructed or at least recognizable.

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